ASHOKA & THE GLOBAL GOALS We’d lOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU: Ashoka UK 15 Old Ford Road London E2 9PJ UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8980 9416 Email: [email protected] uk.ashoka.org Ashoka UK is a Registered Charity in England and Wales (1113246). Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ashokauk Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ashokauk INTRODUCTION 01 NO POVERTY 03 ZERO HUNGER 05 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-beING 07 QUALITY EDUCatiON 09 GENDER EQUALITY 11 CLEAN WatER AND SaNitatiON 13 AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY 15 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 17 INDUSTRY, INNOVatiON AND INFRASTRUCTURE 19 REDUCED INEQUALITIES 21 SUStaiNABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES 23 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMptiON AND PRODUCTION 25 CLIMatE ACTION 27 LIFE BELOW WatER 29 LIFE ON LAND 31 PEACE AND JUSTICE 33 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS 35 INTRODUCING ASHOKA AND THE GLOBAL GOALS Ashoka’s vision is to create an Everyone a Changemaker world, in which we all have the skills, drive and resources to be changemakers, solving the most pressing social problems of today. Ashoka Fellows are critical to the achievement of this vision. For the world to take on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (Global Goals) we must work urgently to identify, support and scale the leading social entrepreneurs in society, whilst also empowering everyone to be proactive changemakers. This is a collective challenge that requires each and every one of us to take ownership of the changes needed. For 35 years, Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship and developed the largest network of leading social entrepreneurs called Ashoka Fellows. More than 3200 Ashoka Fellows in 89 countries where we work with global partners to scale their solutions. We have a tried and tested selection process and when we select an Ashoka Fellow into the network we provide the financial and strategic support to scale their impact to a national, regional and often global scale. Our powerful network of more than 3200 social entrepreneurs is driving innovative and systems changing solutions to the world’s most critical areas of human and environmental need. Their solutions address the root causes and not just the symptoms of social problems in lasting and scalable ways, representing an accelerated pathway to achieving the Global Goals. As countries begin to tackle how to implement strategies to achieve the Global Goals, policy makers looking to Ashoka Fellows’ work gain proven models and potential partners for ensuring an end to poverty, protection of the planet and prosperity for all. Over 50% of Fellows have contributed to changing national policy within 5 years of election to the Fellowship. In addition to the ideas and solutions of our social entrepreneurs, there is a greater opportunity that Ashoka Fellows represent in our pathway to achieving the Global Goals: their know-how and impact in increasing the number of problem solvers in the world. The Global Goals build from the success of the MDGs but also commit to carry out their “unfinished business”. 01 ASHOKA & THE GLOBAL GOALS Ashoka has learned through our unique global network of social entrepreneurs that powerful problem solvers need to develop the skills of empathy, teamwork, new leadership and changemaking. If everyone in the world grew up with the expectation that they have the power to make a positive change and were able to practice that early on, we then have the chance to have solutions outpacing problems. Embedded in the work of Ashoka Fellows is how to achieve impact and it is through empowering all those involved in the solution to lead and realize their own potential as changemakers. If you increase the percentage of skilled change leaders within government, and companies as well as the citizen sector, the ability to find synergies and win-win solutions towards achieving the Global Goals grows exponentially. As we set our sights to fully and unequivocally achieving the Global Goals by 2030, a key factor to make our efforts and investments produce results and real change may be an underlying investment in increasing the density of problem solvers and changemakers in a given society. We have an opportunity to come together and drive key investments to social entrepreneurs’ proven models to accelerate the Global Goals as well as launching a new generation of solutions and leaders relevant to them. This document illustrates just 85 of the 3,200 Ashoka Fellows within our network. We have highlighted 5 systems changing solutions to each Global Goal. We look forward to sharing more about our Fellows’ work but also their methods of empowering other changemakers that have the potential to create a higher percentage of problem solvers in the world than there are development challenges. Together we can identify, support and scale the next 85 solutions and work to empower a society of changemakers. Contact [email protected] for further information and to continue the conversation. ASHOKA & THE GLOBAL GOALS 02 1 NO POVERTY End Poverty in all its forms everywhere LOBE CISSOKHO MUTUELLE DE SaNTÉ OYOFAL Paj DE KAOLACK SENEGAL, CapE VERDE, BRAZIL, DRC Lobé Cissokho realized that most rural women could not repay their microcredit loans because they spent most of their money on healthcare costs rather than on income-generating activities. This limited their ability to save and without saving, poverty remains widespread in their communities. To tackle these related problems, Lobé is coupling mutual credit and savings institutions with health insurance. As a result, both are sustainable and better able to support the women they serve. The Ministry of Health in Senegal, inspired by this progress at the national level, has released funds to support the coupling of health insurance and credit mutual institutions. Lobé has also travelled to health insurance mutual institutions in Burkina Faso and they, in return, visited Senegal to learn from Oyofal Paj. She has had similar knowledge-sharing experiences in Cape Verde, Brazil and the DRC. CELINA DE SOLA GLASSWING INTERNatiONAL WWW.GLASSWING.ORG EL SaLVADOR, GUatEMALA, HONDURAS, PANAMA, COSta RICA, AND THE UNITED StatES Social inclusion in the region is fragmented, wealth is highly consolidated at the top 10% of the income distribution, and trust in institutions, especially political parties and the legislature, is extremely low. Celina has developed a methodology that breaks down systemic barriers of distrust between communities, corporations, and government, enabling sustainable collaboration across these sectors to create social impact. In the seven years since its founding, Glasswing has mobilized more than 60,000 corporate, citizen and public sector volunteers and has reached 500,000 beneficiaries. It has worked in over 400 communities, where it has revitalized 450 schools, trained 6,000 people in emergency response and engaged 15,000 people in community health programs. 03 ASHOKA & THE GLOBAL GOALS MARK EDwaRDS UPSTREAM WWW.UPSTREAM.ORG UNITED StatES Mark believes that reducing unplanned pregnancy is one of the fastest, most evidence-based and least expensive ways to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Mark co-founded Upstream USA, a non- profit organization that is changing the U.S. healthcare system so that all women can receive the highest quality services and conveniently access the full range of modern contraceptive methods, particularly the most effective ones, IUDs and implants. Upstream USA has developed its training curriculum, completed twelve trainings in a wide variety of health centers in Texas, Arizona, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts that serve a total of 37,000 women per year; received early impact data from their first trainings that indicate a 700% year-over-year increase in IUD and implant rates compared to a similar period before the training. Matt FLANNERY KIVA WWW.KIVA.ORG US (HQ) WORKS INTERNatiONALLY Matt Flannery and his colleagues see that lending can be person-to-person in a global society. They are returning to microfinance to its human face, and building a citizen-based movement of micro-lenders as young as four years old. Starting with the online lending platform he initially coded in 2005, Matt and his team are now creating a new way for lenders of average means – primarily those living in more developed economies – to loan to poor, small-scale entrepreneurs living in less well-developed parts of the world. Since its founding in 2005, Kiva has built a pool of 1,438,250 lenders that has disbursed $848,043,750 in loans across 84 countries with a 98.35% repayment rate. JEROO BILIMORIA AFLatOUN WWW.AFLatOUN.ORG THE NETHERLANDS (HQ) WORKS INTERNatiONALLY Jeroo is teaching children and youth at an early age the values of citizenship, instilling habits of healthy behavior and resource management to reduce their vulnerabilities and offer them hope for a future of health and security. Becoming economic citizens, children learn about rights and responsibilities, achieve greater economic and social well-being and are able to create sustainable livelihoods to lift and keep them out of poverty. Active in 113 countries, Aflatoun reaches over 3.9 million children each year; 730,000 of them were active savers in 2014, collectively saving EUR 2.76 million. That same year, 5,177 social enterprises and 11,449 financial ones were created by the children. ASHOKA & THE GLOBAL GOALS 04 2 ZERO HUNGER End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture KIRSTEN TOBEY, KRISTIN RICHMOND REVOLUTION FOODS WWW.REVOLUTIONFOODS.COM USA Traditional school lunch suppliers - Sysco, Chartwell Compass, Preferred Meals, and others - are contract management companies operating with a commitment to profit, not a focus on the health of children. Kirsten Tobey and Kristin Richmond, both former educators, understand that the food that schools serve significantly impacts school performance, and lays the foundation for behavioral patterns around eating that extend both to the home and into adulthood.